Wwwwwwhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee! After the past few weeks, have been seriously worried was losing the old marbles but have leapt out of DC (after abandoning last week's (can't get that station out of my...
I have followed the weekly thread about the Enigmatic Variations crossword and thought I would give it a go today. Although it has taken me all morning, I have completed it, and wonder how it rates in...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers (plus any TT contributors), Filled the grid quite quickly and have adapted the normally clued answers to give me 6 adjacent squares that represent the "where",...
Can't get it online this morning. The Spectator has posted the chess column as the crossword in error. Have e-mailed Doc. I will check again later. I know that we are all desperate.
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, Took a little longer on this one this week, had never heard of the innovator, for a start, then some words not in my vocabulary and some juggling to comply with the...
Allow me to start the thread this week, as I believe DocHH said he'd be, um, off-piste till Wednesday. (No word if he's pist.... - never mind.) A well-constructed puzzle as always, but the payoff did...
54a eye a snake off and on, continually showing pluck...(4) think it may be yank... but why? 9d reportedly, you first book, then finally take in an opera, but only first half(6) e?g?n? tough setter...
Help! SOS! Mayday, Mayday! To all EV N & C'ers. Only half a paper in my papershop today and the bit that is missing is LIFE, hence no EV. Can anyone supply on of those clever link things (as I'm...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, I was mortified when I read the rubric! A non-English quotation, plus my newly acquired 7th edition 0f ODQ not cited as containing it! Imagine my relief when I...
Just thought I would start a thread for N & Cing. If nothing else, all you CC's can tell me you have all finished it in 15 minutes 34 seconds or whatever! Managed about a third so far but am...
Does anyone know why there is no EV thread on answerbank this week? Did everyone find it so easy? I have most of the phrase and an inkling what needs to be removed from the twelve answers but I was...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, A little more challenging this week. Populated the grid slowly, but steadily, then pored for ages trying to fathom the relevance of the extra letters, still not sure,...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, Hope you have all been busy little ones doing this weeks EV. Hopefully not celebrating in the modern way indicated by 44 across, but rather by opening a bottle of...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers,
Another grim subject for EV, let's hope it doesn't occur in the future! Enough of that, it was quite doable this week without being tedious....